Iím running it on our clips all the time now, the last updates have removed all the audible glitches that were really annoying, games seem to work very nice per the kids and other than a rare song freezing up if too much tinkering with the controls, itís running stable enough that I loaded it up for our sonís 2gb clip as well

Yes, plugins and the one's I've tried work fine, even while listening to music. I've only tried a few ... chessbox, chopper, jewels (a real pain without color) and spacerocks (asteroids). But the kids are really the ones playing them ... now we're off to play night kick ball with flash lights and daps to boot! Guess what I'll be using

Good to hear that Rockbox for the Clip has been coming along. From the Rockbox forum, it really sounded like things were becoming more stalled than progressing avidly towards a completion.

The last I had read, I thought that there was a time limit on the songs that Rockbox would play; and that it would only work on 1 (or was it 2?) gbs. Not the case? Any feel for when a "general consumption" version might be available? (Have compiled my own Rockbox in the past for my iRiver player; was being a bit more patient this time, including to avoid bricking issues that I had read about for the Clip.)

Does Rockbox currently support more than 2gb on the Clip? (I know that this was an issue earlier.) Likewise, does using Rockbox on the Clip disable the ability to use DRM files with the original Clip firmware?

Thanks--had read about the DRM factor earlier on in the Sansa Rockbox thread (1 or a couple of devs reported that DRM had become disabled), but then nothing further. For those that have put the firmware on the Clip: is DRM still functional?

Important note: a warning just went up at the Rockbox site not to try the experimental builds on a greater than 4gb Sansa player, as this could brick the player. This would include the 8gb Clip. The post notes that a fix is do-able in the future, it's just not currently in place.

Update: As of at least 6/1/09, this issue appears to have been fixed.

Last edited by Mikerman; 06-01-2009 at 09:29 PM.
Reason: Update as of 6/1/09

The thread tends to report the most up-to-date and developing information. I had forgotten that the Rockbox alpha software for the Clip is for the "v1" player architecture, though, and that the Clip's 8gb version all is a "v2" architecture, seemingly.

I know. I really was just expressing my sadness and a bit of surprise that a Clip stable version has not come out yet, when things were progressing, seemingly, so quickly early this year, due to the efforts of you and the other developers. (And I'm not trying to press matters ... I know that a Rockbox port is done when it is, that there are a myriad of issues, and that all doing the work are volunteers/aficionados.)

I've installed it a few times on my silver 4GB, most recently tried a couple weeks ago. Sometimes it plays, sometimes it doesn't. Games and apps work as expected with such a small screen, but music decides when it'll play and always with clicks and pops. Maybe I'll try again this weekend.

I think I just unlocked gold. Installed once again and I just listened to an entire track.. without skipping, errors, click or pops. I hope this stays.. Because I'm messing with the EQ and I am realizing, this Clip sounds better than the original FW EQ allows.. even though I always knew it. Having the E3 and KSC-75, with gapless, just makes things better. One step closer to a fully stable version. Now it flowed so gaplessly into the next.. no errors. I think I just found my new all-time-use player.